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On 6 December 2012, the Irish recording industry issued proceedings against five Irish ISPs; UPC, Vodafone, Digiweb, Imagine and 3, seeking that the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay.

The Government has signed a statutory instrument transposing the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market into Irish law.

In order to assess whether the use of data in training AI would amount to copyright infringement, we need to understand the nature of the data collected, the way in which it is stored...

RDJ advised Ceartas DMCA, an AI-powered copyright and piracy protection platform founded by Dan Purcell and Jonathan Smyth, on its recent €4.5M million financing round. The funding was led by Earlybird Venture Capital.

This article considers the issue of AI authorship in the EU, identifies how this issue is problematic, and sets out to ascertain how much human involvement is required under EU law for a work to qualify for copyright protection.

The introduction of a "knowledge development box" in Ireland from 1 January 2016 has further enhanced Ireland's intellectual property ("IP") tax regime and bolstered Ireland's reputation...

The Irish recording industry successfully obtained an order from the Commercial Court on 12 June 2013 compelling a number of Internet service providers to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay.

UEFA, the governing body of football in Europe, has secured an order from the Irish High Court requiring several internet service providers (ISPs) to block the illegal live streaming of matches for...

The General Court of the European Union (CJEU) has confirmed that a person can sue for copyright infringement in the courts of their own Member State if the allegedly infringing material is accessible online in that Member State.

A US District Court Judge has overturned the highest ever award for copyright infringement in US history.

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has confirmed that copyright in the national anthem of Ireland will expire at the end of 2012. This department currently holds the copyright in the anthem

Once enacted, the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022 will significantly reform the regulation of online content in Ireland.

If you are reading this on an internet browser you may be relieved to know that you are not infringing copyright law.

A man has sued RTE in the High Court claiming that RTE stole the idea for a television show, Celebrity Bainsteoir.

The increasing popularity of non-fungible tokens ("NFTs") has raised a number of interesting issues from an intellectual property law perspective, both for businesses who operate NFT resale platforms...

On 13 June 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, (ICANN) published the long-awaited list of the 1930 applications it received for new generic Top-Level Domains, (gTLDs).

In a much anticipated judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union yesterday in "Svensson v Retriever Sverige AB" held that hyperlinking freely available Internet content on another website does not amount to an unlawful "communication to the public".